An engaging 22 slide powerpoint teaching pupils about Ruth Benerito’s invention and how it changed the world. Includes a teaching PowerPoint, input, experiment, video link, differentiation, plan, all printables and an extension task. The complete PowerPoint teaches the science behind creasing and how this affected the cotton industry in the 1960’s. Visual and bright images make the theories easy to understand and will spark curiosity for science. Includes: A hands on experiment to do at the start of the lesson as an opener and engagement tool. A helpful video link of Ruth explaining what she has achieved and how. A range of activities for differentiation. A challenge focusing on a clear and short biography of Ruth Benerito explaining why she is such an inspirational scientist and what she achieved in her life. A detailed and easy-to-follow plan. A lesson written for a year 5 class based on the new curriculum learning objective: They should find out about how chemists create new materials, for example, Ruth Benerito, who invented wrinkle-free cotton. All reviews welcome.

5 complete lessons teaching the story of Beowulf. There are engaging starters, inputs, differentiated activities and plenaries in a clear and easy to use Powerpoint. Slides cover key writing skills such as relative clauses, openers, word classes, sentence structure, linking sentences for cohesion and expanded noun phrases. Covers the innovate and invent phases of Talk for Writing. There are clear explanations and modelling of how to create suspense for the tense parts of the story and a grammar activity on the different types of nouns. Useful for any class in KS2, differentiated success criteria Green - LA Blue and yellow - MA Red - HA All reviews welcome.

A week’s plan, 76 slide powerpoint and complete resources for KS2 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of understanding and identifying figurative language. Written for UKS2 but easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. Engaging and relevant starters, main activities and plenaries planned for everyday. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension assessment questions. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my other popular reading lessons: Identifying Themes Summarising Texts Predicting When Reading

An excellent lesson teaching KS2 how to calculate the perimeter of squares and rectangles. Plan, worksheets, PPT, answers, challenges and extensions included. Lesson then challenges children with learning how to find the perimeter of composite shapes and triangles. Complete high quality resources provided: Interactive and Engaging PowerPoint Lesson Plan Independent, paired and group activities Worksheets for lower/mid and mid/higher Challenge for every ability Answers for quick and easy marking A visual, logical and memorable presentation clearly explaining the different perimeter formulas. Enjoy the 22 slide PowerPoint teaching and enhancing your pupil’s understanding of perimeter. Lesson Content: Doubling numbers starter, Perimeter of squares, Reasoning shapes questions, Perimeter of rectangles, Perimeter of composite shapes, Perimeter of triangles. A differentiated lesson of two halves - Middle and Higher ability can independently tackle perimeter reasoning questions while you teach the lower and middle ability. Then they can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the higher ability pupils. Or this can be easily taught to a whole class if you prefer. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources: Calculating Perimeter of Composite Shapes Lesson Area and Perimeter Word Problems Measuring Angles Lesson Drawing Angles Lesson

A week’s plan, powerpoint and resources for year 5 reading focusing on the skill of prediction. Includes 5 engaging starters, main activities and plenaries. Differentiated resources and activities for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA). Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All reviews welcome.

Use this resource to write Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound year 3 writing targets. Useful for teachers when assessing so you can narrow down the statements from the Curriculum into small next steps which the children can understand. Broken down into targets for punctuation, handwriting, grammar and composition. You could print out one for each child and use as an assessment tool. Or just use when marking to save time so you can quickly choose a high quality target personalised for each child. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality resources for the New Curriculum: Whole School SMART Targets Whole School Writing Assessment Sheets Whole School English Writing Assessment Guidance Whole School Guided Reading Questions

A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 4. 68 question templates under 14 categories which match the expectations of the National Curriculum and build confidence in reading. Available in 3 formats to save you time and enhance your pupil’s reading: A4 black and white questions sheet. A4 colour coded questions sheet. Colourful leaflet for discussing reading at home. Can be used in guided reading, reading 1:1, writing comprehensions, at home to support parents and for assessment purposes. Useful for teachers, TAs and parent helpers. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular assessment resources: Year 4 Writing Target Sheet Year 4 SMART Target Bank Year 4 Writing Assessment Sheet

A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum. All words have the -cious or -tious ending from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome. For a whole year of spelling lessons follow these helpful links: Term 1 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 2 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 3 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 4 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 5 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons Term 6 Yr 5/6 Spelling Lessons

An engaging pack for easily teaching predicting to KS2. Contains all you need for the week: plan, powerpoint, resources and answers. Includes sparky starters, meaty main activities and personalised plenaries. Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. All texts provided, a range of interesting genres and styles with modelled answers to comprehension questions. Questions prompting higher order thinking and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results. Designed for year 5 reading focusing on the comprehension skill of predicting. Easily adaptable for all other KS2 classes. Differentiated resources and activities for two ability groups. All reviews welcome. For a whole term’s worth of reading lessons click here to save yourself lots of time!

A useful list of questions for guided reading, reading discussions 1:1 and reading assessments in Year 1. 38 question templates under 10 categories which match the expectations of the National Curriculum and build confidence in reading. Available in 3 formats to save you time and enhance your pupil’s reading: A4 black and white questions sheet. A4 colour coded questions sheet. Colourful leaflet for discussing reading at home. Can be used in guided reading, reading 1:1, writing comprehensions, at home to support parents and for assessment purposes. Useful for teachers, TAs and parent helpers. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular KS1 English resources: Year 1 Writing Assessment Sheet Year 1 Grammar Glossary Year 1 Reading Corner Display

An engaging lesson teaching year 5 (or any KS2 class) how to communicate and achieve their dreams, goals and aspirations. An easy to use 17 slide PowerPoint evaluating the qualities needed for different professions, steps to success and obstacles you might face. A hyperlink to a video case study along with other activities creates high quality dialogue and inspires thoughtful questions. Individual, paired and group activities: - Imagination game (If you were..) - Group sorting activity - Pairs evaluate a video - Whole class discussion of dreams and pathways - Individuals create dream fans Simple and effective assessment task provided and a range of support options are offered if children feel they need to follow up/delve deeper with anything covered in class. All reviews welcome.

A complete lesson pack teaching KS2 children to measure angles. Includes an engaging 47 slide PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets set in real life contexts and all answers. Easily help children move through fluency, reasoning and problem solving to an enhanced understanding of angles. Lesson Pack All necessary resources provided: 2 lesson starters to choose from 47 slide editable PowerPoint (includes all resources) Video hyperlink Activities Worksheets - independent tasks, main activities and challenges Answers Whole Lesson This is a good lesson with a theme of football to engage your class whilst challenging and extending their understanding. Teach KS2 how to estimate and measure angles and to develop mastery with their understanding of angles. The visual PowerPoint covers all the key teaching points, taking the class through from starter to plenary. Differentiation A differentiated lesson by input and worksheet. SEN - Measure the important angles with a protractor. LA - Estimate angles using angle facts then measure using a protractor. MA - Measure the angles in a game of football. Design your own game and measure the angles. HA - Estimate acute, obtuse and reflex angles game, check with a protractor. Investigate angles in a game of football, plan how you will collect and present your answers in a systematic way. Challenge: Two different reasoning, application and problem solving investigations. Possibility for a differentiated lesson of two halves - Middle and Higher ability can independently play an angles game while you teach the lower and middle ability how to estimate and measure angles. Then they can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the highers. Children can move on to the challenges when they feel confident. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in these high quality KS2 maths resources: Drawing Angles Lesson Area and Perimeter Lesson Bundle Angle Fact Sheets Place Value Chart

An engaging 41 slide assembly on the inspirational scientist Albert Einstein. Includes a clear, animated and bright PowerPoint, a video link and fun facts for all ages. The Einstein assembly shows how his life choices led to great things and how it is important to follow your passions from a young age. Use to celebrate his birthday on March 14th or as an interesting assembly for any day of the year. Celebrate a Great Scientist This Science assembly includes: A memory game Young life Family life Working life Fun facts Images of his life Scientific Research Einstein quotes to inspire Why was he such a great scientist? Summary Relevant for KS2 and KS3. You might also be interested in my other bestselling science resources: British Science Week Bundle Lessons on Famous Scientists Forces Unit KS2 Science

A complete KS2 angle display including titles, interactive questions, images, angle types, tips, key words, strategies and reminders. Contains 37 elements. A visual and colourful angle display for your classroom which can also be used in a maths toolkit or as support cards during lessons. All ready to print and put up so your pupils are engaged, enthused and excited about angles. Bright and visual posters of essential angle facts. This extensive display, includes: 3 titles to choose from Question and answer bubbles explain key aspects of this topic. A question flap with an answer inside 5 easy steps to measure angles 10 simple steps to draw angles Key word cards to label an angle and protractor Real life images with a range of angles in to show pupils how this links to life outside of school. Colour-coded images and captions showing and explaining these key angles: acute angle right angle obtuse angle straight line reflex angle complete turn 45, 135, 225, 270, 315 degrees on cards angles on a straight line angles around a point Colour-coded examples showing and explaining equal angles: when two lines intersect when a line intersects a parallel line set 1 when a line intersects a parallel line set 2 Colour-coded examples showing and explaining interior angles of shapes and regular polygons: Triangle Quadrilaterals Pentagon Hexagon Heptagon Octagon Decagon Dodecagon Enthuse your children with learning angles, help them remember these important facts with ease. Use as a display, toolkit or support. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my other popular angle resources: Drawing angles with games and the context of aliens Measuring angles in the context of football

An engaging 26 slide PowerPoint for a KS2 assembly on the life and success of Charles Darwin. Includes a video link, interactive activities and reasoning questions. Inspire your pupils by learning about this brilliant man, be amazed by his achievements and see how they are still relevant today. Includes many higher level thinking questions and a memory challenge to keep every child focused. Can be used on Darwin's birthday February 12th or for starting a topic on famous scientists or explorers. Takes the children through these key questions: What did Darwin think? How can we be a great scientist? Who was Charles Darwin? - Early Life, Careers, Big Break, Exploring, Thinking and Writing, Later Life What were Darwin's theories? What impact did his theories have? Is evolution important today? Differentiated writing tasks included and resourced: Task 1 - Draw or write a flow chart of Darwin's life journey. Task 2 - Write a radio script interviewing Darwin about his life. Task 3 - Write a comparison of Darwin with another famous person who inspires you. Writing templates provided. Other activity ideas also included. Lots of opportunities for discussion and higher level thinking. All concepts explained clearly. Relevant for KS2 and KS3. All reviews welcome. For a good and engaging science unit on forces click here to save yourself lots of time! You can find many more reliable and useful KS2 resources at my shop: Teachallenjoy

One of eight engaging lessons which bring Yosemite National Park into the classroom. Includes a 37 slide teaching PowerPoint, photographs, videos, higher level questioning, paired and group activities, all resources and differentiation. Teaching Points What are human features? What are physical features? What is wilderness? How have these changed over time? What might the park look like in the future? Covers key KS2 National Curriculum geography and English objectives. Teach an effective lesson with no preparation necessary, just glance through the PowerPoint and you’re ready to go. Resources Included Starter Teaching input Photos to analyse in pairs and groups Integrated video link Differentiated activities Sorting worksheet Challenge Plenary Lessons in this unit are designed to support, challenge and extend learning so that every child can access, enjoy and exceed expectations. This is written for KS2, ideally for years 4, 5 and 6 but could be easily adapted for year 3. Human and Physical Geography National Curriculum Learning Objectives understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of …a region within North or South America describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: … rivers, mountains describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular geography lessons on this topic: Scandinavia Physical Features Russia Physical Features UK Coast Physical Features

A bright and animated PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons for years 5 and 6. All words follow the pattern of using the letter string ‘ough’ from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists. Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 5 effective spelling lessons enable children to learn these spellings in an active and successful way. Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings. A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week. Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books. Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day. All reviews welcome.

A complete reading display to inspire a year 1 class. Includes title, bunting, quotes, national curriculum learning objectives, vocabulary cards, question bubbles, interactive elements and a reading challenge. Useful for teachers, children, parent helpers and visitors showing the reading objectives of the new curriculum in a bright and colourful way. An easy way to jazz up your reading corner. Year 1 reading display pack: A large welcome title All the year 1 reading statements simplified to child speak within speech bubbles by animals 12 bunting triangles with famous inspirational quotes Key reading vocabulary cards 10 question bubbles Top Trump book review cards Book recommendation sheets A reading challenge Easily adaptable to fit your space, could also be used in a library to prompt whole school progression. Benefits Children know what they are learning within reading lessons. All adults involved with the class are able to ask effective questions when listening to children read. Assessments of children are more accurate and relevant. Children self and peer assess using the display. Prompts reading discussions. All reviews welcome.